Hi,

Could you provide us Jason's detailed analysis about V4L2 API gap/issues ?

Do you already have in mind a list of requirements for this API (frame
based, asynchronous, memory management/allocation, power ...) ?

Benjamin

2011/4/11 Eric Miao <eric.m...@linaro.org>

> Hi All,
>
> Not really sure how this is being discussed in the Multimedia WG. But
> do we yet have a standardized kernel driver framework for video
> acceleration?
>
> A bit investigation showed a chaos in this area:
>
> 1. Different SoC vendors are using their specific APIs
>
> 2. The freescale case, there is a proposed driver from Sascha using V4L2
> interface, yet our analysis showed some issues with this API to support
> a full featured usage, and the API itself doesn't just seem to be right for
> this (thanks for Jason for a detailed analysis)
>
> 3. XvMC (obsolete I believe)
>
> 4. nVidia's VDPAU, which is supported by XBMC and many others though
>
> 5. VA API (Intel proposed and currently available on Intel graphics), can
> use VDPAU as a backend
>
> 6. XvBA - AMD is proposing this for the ATI video HW
>
> - eric
>
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